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2005-10-25 14:18 | User Profile
[B][URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_on_re_us/obit_rosa_parks"]Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks, 92, Dies[/URL][/B] By BREE FOWLER, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
DETROIT - Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.
At the time, she couldn't have known it would secure her a revered place in American history. But her one small act of defiance galvanized a generation of activists, including a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and earned her the title "mother of the civil rights movement."
Mrs. Parks died Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. She was 92.
Monique Reynolds, 37, a native of Montgomery, Ala., called Mrs. Parks an inspiration who had lived to see the changes brought about by the civil rights movement.
"Martin Luther King never saw this, Malcolm X never saw this," said Reynolds, who now lives in Detroit. "She was able to see this and enjoy it."
In 1955, Jim Crow laws in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations throughout the South, while legally sanctioned racial discrimination kept blacks out of many jobs and neighborhoods in the North.
Mrs. Parks, an active member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat.
She refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year on the same charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14.
U.S. Rep John Conyers, in whose office Mrs. Parks worked for more than 20 years, remembered the civil rights leader as someone whose impact on the world was immeasurable, but who never sought the limelight.
"Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that," he said. "She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today."
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he felt a personal tie to the civil rights icon: "She stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her."
Speaking in 1992, Mrs. Parks said history too often maintains "that my feet were hurting and I didn't know why I refused to stand up when they told me. But the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long."
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. King, who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
"At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this," she said 30 years later. "It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in."
The Montgomery bus boycott, which came one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark declaration that separate schools for blacks and whites were "inherently unequal," marked the start of the modern civil rights movement.
The movement culminated in the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations.
After taking her public stand for civil rights, Mrs. Parks had trouble finding work in Alabama. Amid threats and harassment, she and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit in 1957. She worked as an aide in Conyers' Detroit office from 1965 until retiring Sept. 30, 1988. Raymond Parks died in 1977.
Mrs. Parks said upon retiring from her job with Conyers that she wanted to devote more time to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. The institute, incorporated in 1987, is devoted to developing leadership among Detroit's young people and initiating them into the struggle for civil rights.
"Rosa Parks: My Story," was published in February 1992. In 1994 she brought out "Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation," and in 1996 a collection of letters called "Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth."
She was among the civil rights leaders who addressed the Million Man March in October 1995.
In 1996, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to civilians making outstanding contributions to American life. In 1999, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Mrs. Parks received dozens of other awards, ranging from induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor to an NAACP Image Award for her 1999 appearance on CBS' "Touched by an Angel."
She was born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. Family illness interrupted her high school education, but after she married Raymond Parks in 1932, he encouraged her and she earned a diploma in 1934. He also inspired her to become involved in the NAACP.
Mrs. Parks was a beloved aunt to 13 nieces and nephews.
"She wasn't the mother of the civil rights movement to me," Susan McCauley, one of her nieces, said last year. "She was the woman I wanted to become."
Her later years were not without difficult moments. In 1994, her home was invaded by a 28-year-old man who beat her and took $53. She was treated at a hospital and released. The man, Joseph Skipper, pleaded guilty, blaming the crime on his drug problem.
Mrs. Parks rarely was seen in public after 2001, when she canceled a meeting with President Bush. In court papers filed in September 2004 in connection with her lawsuit over the rap group OutKast's song "Rosa Parks," her lawyers said she had dementia.
After losing the OutKast lawsuit, Reed, her attorney, said Mrs. Parks "has once again suffered the pains of exploitation." A later suit against OutKast's record company was settled out of court.
In 2002, her landlord threatened to evict her from her high-rise apartment in downtown Detroit after her caregivers missed rental payments. Riverfront Associates decided in October 2004 to let her live there rent-free permanently.
Looking back in 1988, Mrs. Parks said she worried that black young people took legal equality for granted.
Older blacks, she said "have tried to shield young people from what we have suffered. And in so doing, we seem to have a more complacent attitude.
"We must double and redouble our efforts to try to say to our youth, to try to give them an inspiration, an incentive and the will to study our heritage and to know what it means to be black in America today."
At a celebration in her honor that same year, she said: "I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die ââ¬â the dream of freedom and peace."
Associated Press Writer JoAnne Viviano contributed to this report from Detroit.
2005-10-25 16:58 | User Profile
Rosa Parks: The Real Story
"Civil Rights Hero," Rosa Parks: USA Today reports that NEA teachers have seen to it that every public school child in America knows their version of "The Rosa Parks' Story."
It goes something like this; a poor tired black seamstress took a seat in the front of a Montgomery, Alabama buss on December 1, 1955. The driver asked her to move to the back under the state's Segregation law.
For refusing Parks was arrested.
Four days later Martin Luther King arrive in town and launched the Montgomery Buss Boycott. After 381 days, the Supreme Court ordered the city buses integrated. The True Parks' Story: the behind-the-scene true story is that Rosa Parks was the secretary of the local NAACP.
The book, "Speak Now," a left-wing history of the civil rights movement, states that in August of 1955, (four months before the bus incident) Parks attended the Highlander Folk School in Mount Eagle, Tennessee. The "school" was started in 1932 by Myles Horton and James Dombrowski, both members of the Communist Party.
"Speak Now" states that the schools' original purpose was to train Communists activists on how to promote textile strikes, hold protest marches, picket lines and learn "socialist songs."
The Textile Workers Union was completely controlled by the Communist Party. "Speak Now," page 529 reads as:
"FBI surveillance of the Highlander Folk School and the Southern Conference Educational Fund, (SCEF) intensified. In 1952 Myles Horton would invest their energy and resources in the historic Southern struggle over desegregation of the public schools."
"Speak Now," says that Parks attended summer training at the Highlander Folk school in 1955, 1956 and 1957. She is pictured with Martin Luther King sitting on the front row in a Highlander training class on September 2, 1957. Thus, the liberals' story that she was just a "poor tired black seamstress" when she sat in the front of the bus is a total lie!
On December 1, the black Troy State College in Montgomery opened a $10 million Rosa Parks Library and monument. Attending the dedication included the state's first Jewish governor, Dan Siegelman, who praised Parks, Coretta Scott King said that this incident launched her husband's civil rights career and added:
"By the sheer force of her will, she set in motion a revolution that continues to this day." (Note: She could have and should have also thanked the Communist Party school which trained Parks)
Parks is called, "The mother of the civil rights movement." Both NAACP head Kweisis Mfume, (who has five children by five different women; and never married to any of them) and Jesse Jackson (who is also the father of an illegitimate child) attended. Earlier, Clinton presented Miss Parks with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.
An old city bus, like the one Parks road on, is on display in the museum. Children are now brought on the bus and a harsh recorded voice tells all blacks to move to the back. This is deliberately designed to instill feelings of guilt and self-hate in White Children. (The Truth at Last, P.O. Box 1211, Marietta, Georgia, p. 4)
[url]http://www.martinlutherking.org/articles/rosaparks.html[/url]
2005-10-25 17:00 | User Profile
'Course, the main problem now is that nobody really cares that the Commies have completely taken over our government, culture and institutions.
2005-10-25 18:30 | User Profile
Coming to a school near you, the Rosa Parks national holiday, and you can bet it wouldn't be folded into MLK's holiday.
Listening to Neil Boortz today and he just salivated over Parks. What courage it took, he waxed. What bullsh*t it evidentally takes to spin a communist into an American heroine.
2005-10-25 18:36 | User Profile
You know, I never did quite understand why she is so glorfied. Honestly even as an icon to Blacks she's highly overrated.
Reminds of something I read in the book Intellectual Morons about how any medicore figure who pushed a liberal-like agenda is glorified beyond belief.
2005-10-25 19:24 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]'Course, the main problem now is that nobody really cares that the Commies have completely taken over our government, culture and institutions.[/QUOTE]
Darn straight Tex, darn straight. Shrines to Senator Joe McCarthy should be erected throughout the USA and a national holiday declared in his name. He was the prophet, not MLK or Rosa Parks. After McCarthy came the NAACP, Civil Rights (anti-White) and Third World immigration and movies are made about "hero" Edward Murrow while the US operates today on 9 of 10 Marxist planks.
And no one cares except us.
2005-10-25 19:43 | User Profile
W bows down [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rosa_parks_bush_1;_ylt=AgjTuh6STtXtmZk96gUMwtBhKZ4v;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl[/url]
2005-10-25 20:43 | User Profile
Always give credit where it is due:
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A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
2005-10-25 21:06 | User Profile
Rosa Parks may have been a "right place at the right time" situation, but someone always needs to become an icon for an important struggle, and she served that purpose well. I don't think her political ideology has any relevance to the symbolic role she played in the Civil Rights movement.
2005-10-27 21:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bacchus]Rosa Parks may have been a "right place at the right time" situation, but someone always needs to become an icon for an important struggle, and she served that purpose well. I don't think her political ideology has any relevance to the symbolic role she played in the Civil Rights movement.[/QUOTE]
[B]That's true of all icons...but some icons are harder to accept than others because what passes for the truth and our acceptance of the myth, makes us look like fools.[/B]
2005-10-27 22:35 | User Profile
To be alive at that time and to do what she did you needed to have big balls, looks to me like she had them......to me everything else is irrelevant.
2005-10-27 23:54 | User Profile
[quote=Ponce]To be alive at that time and to do what she did you needed to have big balls, looks to me like she had them......to me everything else is irrelevant.
Well look who the cat dragged in. :clown: How are you, Ponce?
AE
2005-10-28 00:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]To be alive at that time and to do what she did you needed to have big balls, looks to me like she had them......to me everything else is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]
hey ponce, welcome back. hows castro ? by the way, how do you know she had balls ? were you on that bus and give her the "crocodile dundee" test ? :blow:
2005-10-28 01:18 | User Profile
Thanks people, glad to be back.........when I came to the US at the age of 12 in 1952 I made the mistake of wanting to give my seat to a pregnant black lady in Miami and almost had a riot in my hands and I din't know why.
Back in Cuba I was raised in a sugar mill where 94% of those there were blacks descendants of slaves and I always got along with them. believe or not when I went back for a visit in 1996 (44 years later) they were still housed in the same quarters......incredable.
2005-10-28 01:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]To be alive at that time and to do what she did you needed to have big balls, looks to me like she had them......to me everything else is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]
What??
2005-10-28 14:37 | User Profile
[url]http://www.ahherald.com/readers_write/2005/051026_rosa_parks.htm[/url]
READER'S WRITE
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ROSA PARKS WAS A COMMUNIST AGITATOR
Dear Editor,
Regarding the story of the passing of Rosa Parks, I noticed a few glaring omissions about her life.
Although it was a courageous act to refuse to sit in the back of the bus as she was ordered to do, this was not a spontaneous act on her part, and a closer look at history will tell the full story, which unfortunately does not meet the "politically correct" criteria for today's news.
Rosa Parks was the secretary of the local NAACP. In August of 1955, (four months before the bus incident) Parks attended the Highlander Folk School in Mount Eagle, Tennessee. This school was started in 1932 by Myles Horton and James Dombrowski, both members of the Communist Party. The schools' original purpose was to train Communists activists on how to promote textile strikes, hold protest marches, and march in picket.
The Textile Workers Union then was completely controlled by the Communist Party. Parks attended summer training at the Highlander Folk school in 1955, 1956 and 1957. She is pictured with Martin Luther King sitting on the front row in a Highlander training class on September 2, 1957, making the story that she was just a "poor tired black seamstress" when she sat in the front of the bus is a complete lie.
An old city bus, like the one Parks rode on, is on display in the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery AL. Children are regularly brought to the bus on field trips to hear a harsh recorded voice telling all blacks to move to the back. This is deliberately designed to instill feelings of guilt and self-hate in white children.
In reality, Rosa Parks, the "Civil Rights Heroine" was a Communist agitator, and a black racist.
Ed Toner Brick NJ
2005-10-29 00:40 | User Profile
Great letter Ed.
The following article speaks for itself as to the extent that the Political Correctness rot has infected the Republic.
[url]http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/10/rosa_parks_to_lie_in_honor_at.php[/url]
Rosa Parks to Lie in Honor at Capitol
AR Articles on Indoctrination
The Religion of Anti-Racism (Apr. 1999)
The War on White Heritage (Jul. 2000)
Letââ¬â¢s Hate America (Jan. 2001)
More news stories on Indoctrination Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Oct. 28
WASHINGTONââ¬âRosa Parks, the seamstress whose act of defiance on a public bus a half-century ago helped spark the civil rights movement, will join presidents and war heroes who have been honored in death with a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda.
Parks, who died Monday in Detroit at age 92, also will be the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda, the vast circular room under the Capitol dome.
The House on Friday passed by voice vote a resolution allowing Parks to be honored in the Capitol on Sunday and Monday ââ¬Åso that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.ââ¬Â The Senate approved the resolution Thursday night.
It will be only the fifth time in the past two decades that a person has either lain in honor or in state in the Rotunda. The last to lie in state was President Reagan after his death in June last year.
Parksââ¬â¢ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 led to a 381-day boycott of the cityââ¬â¢s bus system and helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
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Parks would be the first woman and second black American to receive the accolade. Jacob J. Chestnut, one of two Capitol police officers fatally shot in 1998, was the first black American to lie in honor, said Senate historian Richard Baker.
Parks also would be the second non-governmental official to be commemorated that way. The remains of Pierre Lââ¬â¢Enfantââ¬âthe French-born architect who was responsible for the design of Washington, D.C.ââ¬âstopped at the Capitol in 1909, long after his death in 1825.
ââ¬ÅRosa Parks is not just a national hero, she is the embodiment of our social and human conscience and the spark that lit the flame of liberty and equality for African Americans and minority groups in this country and around the globe,ââ¬Â said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.
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2005-10-29 03:05 | User Profile
[url]http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/naacp.htm[/url]
Jewish Dominance and Exploitation of the Black Civil Rights Movement
Many observers argue that the presumed Jewish altruism and social activism in the American civil rights movement of the 1960's had baser motives. Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the multicultural coalitions spearheaded by Jews in the civil rights era "was a political tactic" to "undermine the power" of those establishment social forces that hindered further Jewish socio-economic advancement. [GINSBERG, p. 125] In 1975 Hasia Dinner wrote a PhD thesis about the way that "Jewish support for black causes was a way for Jews to broaden their own rights without becoming conspicuous by advocating their group interests." [FEINGOLD, p. 130] "Jewish leaders," wrote Diner, "representing different socio-economic classes, ideologies, and cultural experiences committed themselves to black betterment and gave time, money, and energy to black organizations. The spectrum was so wide and the involvement so extensive that one must conclude that these leaders acted out of peculiarly Jewish motives ... [My] book demonstrates that Jewish ends were secured by involvement with blacks." [DINER, p. xiv, xii]
(Similarly, Jewish author Peter Novick notes the changing Jewish strategy in using massive Jewish attack against generic prejudice as a tool in fending off specific anti-Jewish hostility:
"In recent decades, the leading Jewish organizations have invoked the Holocaust to argue that anti-Semitism is a distinctively virulent and murderous form of hatred. But in the first postwar decades their emphasis -- powerfully reinforced by contemporary scholarly opinion -- was on the common psychological roots of all forms of prejudice. Their research, educational, and political action programs consistently minimized diffrences between different targets of discrimination. If prejudice and discrimination were all of a piece, they reasoned that they could serve the cause of Jewish self-defense as well by attacking prejudice and discrimination against blacks as by tackling anti-Semitism directly.") [NOVICK., P., 1999, p. 116]
"The Jewish struggle for equality and fair treatment," says Jonathan Kaufman, "was linked to the struggles of Blacks for greater opportunity. It was not a struggle of equals; Jews did not consider their plight equal to that of Blacks. But they recognized in the Black struggle for civil rights elements that could benefit them and conditions with which they sympathized." [MARTIN, p. 131] Hence, perhaps three-quarters of the funding for the three major civil rights organizations -- the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Congress of Racial Equality, and Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference is attributed to Jewish sponsorship. [MARTIN, p. 132]
"Any support of human rights in general by Jews," says Israel Shahak, "which does not include the support of human rights of non-Jews whose rights are being violated by [Israel] is deceitful ... [Jewish] support of Blacks in the South was motivated only by consideration of Jewish self-interest." [SHAHAK, p. 103] "The major role [that Jews] once played in the civil rights movement," says Charles Liebman and Stephen Cohen, "[is a] myth ... [that] enhances the self-image of a Jew as a caring and sensitive minority selflessly contributing to improve the lot of other minorities." [LIEBMAN/COHEN, p. 17] "Among the many myths life and history have imposed on Negroes," wrote Black author Harold Cruse in 1967, "... is the myth that the Negroes' best friend is the Jew." [CRUSE, p. 476]
For years W.E.B. DuBois was the only Black officer in the NAACP, which was largely directed, funded, and controlled in its early decades by Jews like Henry Moskowitz and Joel Spingarn. [ARSON, p. 140] (In 1913 Spingarn announced a yearly award named after himself, the "Spingarn Medal," for the "highest and noblest achievement of an American Negro." [DINER, p. 138] ) In a later era, and another Black organization, the Southern Leadership Christian Conference, a Jew -- Stanley Levison -- even wrote Martin Luther King's speeches for him. [MARTIN, p. 132] Levison has been described as one of King's "closest personal advisers." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 66] This voice of "Christian Leadership," Levison, was also discovered by the FBI to have been a former Communist party member. [KAUFMAN, J., p. 66] Another Jew, Marvin Rich, was the "chief fundraiser and key speech writer for the Congress of Racial Equality -- CORE", [GINZBURG, p. 145] and his position was later filled by another Jewish attorney, Alan Gartner. In the 1960s, "in CORE, younger and more militant members blocked efforts by [James] Farmer to name one of his Jewish advisers president of CORE, insisting the post be filled with a black." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 76] In the same era, the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, Will Maslow, was also a CORE national board member. (He resigned in outrage when one African-American CORE official, Clifford Brown, angrily declared that Hitler hadn't "killed enough" Jews). [UROFSKY, M., 1978, p. 327]
Another such Black civil rights group was the National Urban League, greatly funded by the Sears-Roebuck magnate, Julius Rosenwald. Edwin Seligman ("descended from one of the wealthiest and most prestigious Jewish families"), was the first chairman of the organization. Its first Executive Board included Abraham Lefkowitz and Felix Adler -- later joined by Seligman's brother George and Ella Sachs Plotz. In 1932, six Jews "served as officials" at the Urban League's Chicago branch. [DINER, p. 186] Following Jewish philanthropic donations, Salmon O. Levinson began directorship of the Abraham Lincoln Center (a social work center for Blacks and whites) in 1917. [DINER, p. 181] Jacob Billikopf, also Jewish, became chairman of Howard University, a Black college, in 1935. Fisk University also had influential Jewish board members. To this day, Rabbi David Saperstein serves as an NAACP board member. "By the mid-1960s," says Jonathan Kaufman, "Jewish contributions made up three-quarters of the money raised by SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee], CORE, and SCLC. So important were contributions from Jews to SCLC, Jesse Jackson recalled later, that for a time King's advisers debated whether they should call the group simply the Southern Leadership Conference, eliminating the reference to 'Christian.' In phone conversations with King, Bayard Rustin, one of King's top advisers, would remind him to include references in his speeches to the 'Judeo-Christian tradition.'" [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 66]
Jewish actor Theodore Bikel, a Zionist activist, was once "one of SNCC's most prominent supporters." [VOLKMAN, p. 215] Howard Zinn was also a Jewish SNCC "adviser." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 67] SNCC African-American leader Stokely Carmichael's "first demonstration was a pro-Israel rally held in front of the United Nations by the Young Socialist League." (He later became very vocally anti-Zionist). Another SNCC Black leader, Robert Moses, "had gone to the Jewish socialist camp, Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, as a child and befriended many Jews from radical and socialist homes." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 67]
What about the Southern Poverty Law Center, famed fighter for the impoverished and African-American rights, especially in the South? It is based in Montgomery, Alabama, and in 1996 the local Montgomery Advertiser printed an embarrassing expose about the Center. The salary, noted the paper, for SPLC president and CEO (as well as SPLC co-founder) Joseph Levin was $137,798 a year. Not bad for a fighter on behalf of those mired in poverty. The Center's Legal Director, Richard Cohen, made $151,420. But that's not all. The Advertiser further noted that "One thing remains a constant at the nation's wealthiest civil rights charity, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center: All the top-paid, top-level management jobs are held by whites." [RICHARDSON, S., 8-29, p. D7] [No notation of the percentage of Jews within this "white" nomenclature is noted] In SPLC's 25-year history "no black person has held a top-level management position, and only one black staffer has ever been among the top five paid positions." In SPLC's team of five lawyers, one was African-American. [RICHARDSON, S., 8-29-96, p. D7]
The next year, an editorial writer, Rose Sanders, expressed outrage in the same newspaper that the SPLC publicly condemned Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (a hero in large parts of the Black community) as a racist. She pointed out the hypocrisy of the charge, noting that "Joseph Levin says he is not a bigot, but how does he explain the bigotry evidenced by the employment practices at the Poverty Law Center? An example of the Center's racial prejudice is illustrated by its racial tolerance program. The program did not have a single black employee. No black person helped shape or design the program." [SANDERS, R., 9-22-97, p. 7A] The granddaddy of Black civil rights organizations, the NAACP, "took shape" at the estate ("Troutbeck") of Joel Spingarn who became its Board Chairman in 1915. He served in this position until 1929 when he became, instead, the president, til 1939. He was succeeded by his brother Arthur (for many years head of the NAACP's Legal Committee) till 1966, when another Jew, Kivie Kaplan, "a millionaire manufacturer of patent leather," [HILLEL/LEVINE, p. 127] took over. "By 1968," note Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon, "the perceived paternalistic leadership style of Kaplan and other prominent Jews in the civil rights movement was coming under increasingly sharp attack. Activists called for his resignation; Kaplan refused." [HILLEL/ HARMON, p. 127] Only with Kaplan's death in 1975 did the NAACP -- 64 years after its founding -- have the opportunity to elect its first Black president. [GOLDBERG, p. 24]
"Litigation," notes Hasia Diner, "was the Association's most potent weapon ... Many of those lawyers and legal advisors were Jews. In fact, Jews made their greatest impact on the Association in this area." [DINER, p. 128] Jewish lawyer Nathan Margold's 1929 "report became the bible of the NAACP's legal efforts." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 91] Jack Greenberg headed the 1960s-era NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In 1982, still at the helm, a Black student coalition at Harvard protested Jewish paternalism and the fact that a white Jew "was heading the country's premier black legal organization." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 119-121] Joel Spingarn, who served as both the NAACP Chairman of the Board and as a major in the U.S. Military Intelligence Department (MID) during World War I, was revealed in recent years by the Memphis Commercial Appeal to have "used his [NAACP] post to obtain critical information for MID." [MARTIN, p. 49] Another such "liberal" Jew on the NAACP membership rolls included Judge Julian Mack (of the U.S. Court of Appeals), the first President of the American Jewish Congress. Mack was also president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. He and Louis Brandeis, notes Thomas Kolsky, "dominated American Zionism from 1914 to 1921 and also in the 1930s." [KOLSKY, T., p. 26]
With Jews holding the purse strings to many ostensibly Black organizations, in 1976 Black activist Julian Bond sought the directorship of the NAACP. Although critical of Israel, Bond found it necessary to sign a yearly "Black Americans in Support of Israel (BASIC)" statement "if he was to have any chance of winning the NAACP position, given the powerful influence of Jews within the organization." [GINZBURG, p. 169] In the early years of the NAACP, adds Hasia Diner, "heavy Jewish involvement may explain why the [NAACP] conference passed the 'Russian Resolution,' which protested the expulsion of Jews from the city of Kiev, Russia." [DINER, p. 136] Later, African Americans like William Pollard, Deputy Director of the NAACP, took "many trips" to Israel, although socialization to the Jewish/Israeli perspectives was not always completely successful. [STARR, J., 1990, p. 251]
Clues to the nature of Spingarn's NAACP may be gleaned from the following quotes from B. Joyce Ross, author of J.E. Spingarn and the Rise of the NAACP:
"Spingarn's failure to relinquish the power he wielded in the NAACP comprised one of the greatest paradoxes of his career." [p. 69]
"Spingarn's familiarity with New York's most reputable financial institutions and his expertise in the management of stocks and bonds enabled him to become one of the key formulators of the NAACP's financial policy." [p. 57] (He also had a "special influence" at publishers Harcourt, Brace and a "special relationship" at Alfred Knopf). [LEWIS, p. 562]
'The NAACP became a closed corporation ... [resulting in] a tremendous narrowing of the broad base of authority suggested by the Association's constitutional structure, with a concomitant tendency toward a self-perpetuating Board of Directors." [p. 52]
"The central office's tight control of the branches meant essentially that a few New York administrators determined NAACP policy on a nationwide scale." [p. 58-59]
"[W.E.B. Du Bois], the only Black executive officer [until 1916] contended that it was absolutely necessary that he have a large measure of autonomy lest the Association with its preponderance of white executives, should become a white dominated organization with Negroes as mere helpers ... From an administrative standpoint [Du Bois'] demand for autonomy was a potential threat to the organization's basic unity." [p. 61-62]
Even though W. E. Du Bois, one of the foremost Black leaders of the day, received a full salary from the Association for his services, he frequently was obliged to solicit personal loans from Spingarn." [ p. 57] The early Black nationalist Marcus Garvey "stormed out of the NAACP's headquarters in 1917, 'dumbfounded' by the apparent domination of whites." These included Board Chairman Joel Spingarn, his brother Arthur who was pro bono counsel, Herbert Lehman of the Executive Committee, Arthur Sachs, Herbert Seligmann - director of public relations, and his secretary Martha Gruening. [LEWIS, p. 553] (A particularly curious instance occurred in 1962-63 when the labor union expert at the NAACP, a Jew named Herbert Hill, led an attack on the -- largely Jewish -- International Ladies Garment workers union, for racism ["discrimination."] [GLAZER/MOYNIHAN, p. 178]
Other NAACP activists included Felix Frankfurter ("an active Zionist who is credited with drafting the Balfour Declaration, the 1918 statement of the British government favoring the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine" and Herman Lehman who "was also a Zionist and lent a hand in the Palestine Economic Corporation. Among Louis Marshall's "primary activities" included "serving as president of the American Jewish Committee." Herman Moskowitz "worked ardently in the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Social Service Association." [DINER, p. 123]
In later years Marcus Garvey ran into trouble with the law concerning his part-ownership of a steam line business. "I am being punished for the crime of the Jew Silverstone [an agent of the Black Star line]," he complained, "I was persecuted by Maxwell Mattuck, another Jew, and I am to be sentenced by Judge Julian Mack, the eminent jurist [and an NAACP board member]. Truly, I may say, 'I am going to Jericho and fell among thieves.'" [MAGIDA, p. 166]
"One is driven to the hypothesis," says Israel Shahak, "that quite a few of Martin Luther King's rabbinical supporters were either anti-Black racists who supported him for tactical reasons (wishing to win black support for American Jewry and for Israel) or were accomplished hypocrites." [SHAHAK, p. 26] "[Jewish] loyalists," declared Thelma Thomas Dalevy, president of the mostly Black Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1979, "are not compatible with the struggle of black Americans for equal opportunity under the law. Indeed, we question whether their loyalties are first with the state of Israel or the United States." [STANFIELD, p. 1849]
Yet, "Jews cannot afford to engage in or tolerate political tactics or public rhetoric that seriously threatens to discredit blacks," observes Benjamin Ginzburg, "This is one of the major reasons that Jewish racism, often expressed privately, seldom manifests itself publicly. African-Americans are simply too important to the legitimacy of the American domestic state. If Jews engage in attacks on blacks or permit doubts to be raised about the merits of their political claims, then Jews are, in effect, undermining a major moral prop supporting the institutions from which they themselves derive enormous benefits and through which they exercise considerable power." [GINZBURG, p. 153]
2005-10-29 04:13 | User Profile
(Munchkins) Ding-dong the witch is dead Which old witch? The wicked witch Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead Wake up you sleepyhead Rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up the wicked witch is dead She's gone where the goblins go Below - below - below Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead
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2005-10-29 19:04 | User Profile
I hear that Communist Rosa Parks will lie in state in the rotunda in Washington DC, where former Presidents Kennedy and Reagan were after their deaths.
United States of Soviets has been achieved in this formerly free country. What a disgrace.
2005-10-30 00:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]I hear that Communist Rosa Parks will lie in state in the rotunda in Washington DC, where former Presidents Kennedy and Reagan were after their deaths.
United States of Soviets has been achieved in this formerly free country. What a disgrace.[/QUOTE]
Hear that sound ? Rumble rumble rumble....its the sound of tanks rolling over ever single statue and monument related to the negro in America. Oh what a beautiful sound it will be. Ill gladly pay $2/bag for gravel made from the rubble for my driveway.
:tank:
2005-10-30 00:42 | User Profile
Way overdue.... All aboard for Africa! Load'em up! [img]http://www.rossespoint.com/images/Steamship.jpg[/img]
2005-10-31 05:01 | User Profile
Ed Toner kicks ass: [url]http://www.ahherald.com/readers_write/2005/051026_rosa_parks.htm[/url]
ROSA PARKS WAS A COMMUNIST AGITATOR
Dear Editor,
Regarding the story of the passing of Rosa Parks, I noticed a few glaring omissions about her life.
Although it was a courageous act to refuse to sit in the back of the bus as she was ordered to do, this was not a spontaneous act on her part, and a closer look at history will tell the full story, which unfortunately does not meet the "politically correct" criteria for today's news.
Rosa Parks was the secretary of the local NAACP. In August of 1955, (four months before the bus incident) Parks attended the Highlander Folk School in Mount Eagle, Tennessee. This school was started in 1932 by Myles Horton and James Dombrowski, both members of the Communist Party. The schools' original purpose was to train Communists activists on how to promote textile strikes, hold protest marches, and march in picket.
The Textile Workers Union then was completely controlled by the Communist Party. Parks attended summer training at the Highlander Folk school in 1955, 1956 and 1957. She is pictured with Martin Luther King sitting on the front row in a Highlander training class on September 2, 1957, making the story that she was just a "poor tired black seamstress" when she sat in the front of the bus is a complete lie.
An old city bus, like the one Parks rode on, is on display in the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery AL. Children are regularly brought to the bus on field trips to hear a harsh recorded voice telling all blacks to move to the back. This is deliberately designed to instill feelings of guilt and self-hate in white children.
In reality, Rosa Parks, the "Civil Rights Heroine" was a Communist agitator, and a black racist.
Ed Toner Brick NJ
2005-10-31 19:54 | User Profile
Thanks for the article Travis and MR. I might use it in a discussion Im having with "Christians" who try to compare her to John the Baptist. :yucky:
2005-10-31 19:55 | User Profile
Thanks for the article Travis and MR. I might use it in a discussion Im having with "Christians" who try to compare her to John the Baptist. :yucky:
2005-10-31 20:04 | User Profile
[quote=Hilaire Belloc]Thanks for the article Travis and MR. I might use it in a discussion Im having with "Christians" who try to compare her to John the Baptist. :yucky: I really hope you're joking, but I have a sick feeling that you're not.
2005-10-31 20:29 | User Profile
I sincerly wish I was joking, but not Im not.
You can read for yourself here: [url]http://www.catholic-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3779[/url]
The post made by David: ** She was a remarkable woman. When I was protestant and preached a sermon on the first Sunday in Advent [u]I basically called her a modern day John the Baptist[/u]. I pray for the repose of her soul.**
Of course some got irrate because I gave some very simple criticism of her. I didnt even mention anything about race. Even as a "Black icon" or whatever, she is overrated. How on earth is refusing to give up your seat such a heroic act? I have yet to hear a reasonable explainations for this.
Frankly, I dont know if I even want to discuss this issue with them
1) I dont care enough about the topic to even want to debate it. 2) No matter how reasonable my arguments are(again without ever mentioning race or anything), I'll just get a bunch of emotionally charged responses about Im "inconsiderate" "racist" or ignoring her "greatness" etc. 3) I lack the time and energy to deal with any of their nonsense.
2005-10-31 21:02 | User Profile
Syl Jones the resident racist / calumnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune contributes his "well thought out" assesment of the Rosa Parks story.
[url]http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5689393.html[/url]
startribune.com Syl Jones: Rosa Parks set the bonfire of freedom ablaze Syl Jones, October 26, 2005
[B]Amidst the inanity of water-logged reporters caught in self-induced dramas covering Hurricane Wilma comes word of real news:[/B] Rosa Parks, civil rights icon and legend, died at the age of 92 surrounded by her family. Had she held on a little longer, she would have reached the 50th anniversary of her astonishing achievement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to move from a seat at the front of the colored section of a city bus in Montgomery, Ala.
Few have acknowledged that Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery. Civil rights leaders like E.D. Nixon had been searching for the right person to use as a test case against the system of apartheid known as Southern segregation. Parks was considered appropriate because she was 42 years old, not pregnant, had a respectable job [B]and had been trained in nonviolent resistance,[/B] a concept that is all too foreign to today's youth.
But this dignified woman lit the match that set the bonfire of freedom ablaze in the United States and inspired the entire world. That she did so without a great deal of personal fanfare further cemented her reputation.
I invite you to imagine, if you can, how different the civil rights movement -- and much of American history -- might have been had Parks planted a bomb on that bus or assassinated the driver. She might have been tempted to lash out in a thousand ways against an oppressive racist society that exploited those who were called "colored" people by the most polite members of white society. Ruffians and the common people used more insulting words.
[B]The oppression was not only social and political but primarily economic. In Parks' era, steady work as a maid for a wealthy white family passed as a good Black men could do relatively little outside of their own communities without suffering harassment or even murder by white authorities[/B]. In fact, it would not overstate the case to say that the very existence of well-dressed, well-spoken black men and women who were striving for economic parity with other white Southern citizens was considered a major threat. These people had to be stopped.
Don't forget that the purpose of the racial segregation laws in the South was to constantly remind blacks that they were legally unequal, less than whites, almost less than human. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education a year prior to Parks' act of defiance fanned the flames of white racism and violence. How could a court of law decide that the basis for their entire way of life was wrong? This way of life was ancient, having been codified in the hearts and minds of most white Southerners and many Northerners for perhaps two centuries.
Had she been so inclined, Parks might have slashed the tires of that bus or even punched the arrogant driver who manhandled her. But she did nothing of the kind, knowing that the system she was about to challenge could not be defeated through violence. The myth that Parks had tired feet that day is [B]little more than an extension of the "lazy Negro" stereotype that had always been a lie.[/B] The truth is that she and others were tired in their soul and their spirit: tired of the nasty words and the hurtful looks, tired of being blamed for every crime, tired of being forced to worship the almighty god of white supremacy every minute of every day.
Although the vitriolic way in which her handlers defended her image in later years proved embarrassing to us all, the meaning of Rosa Parks and her life is still clear. Parks was a militant, meaning she insisted on a standard of conduct that defied the law. But she was successful because she was also a model of decorum, a woman whose life reflected service to her family and community. Her universal endorsement of freedom was always linked to the ideas of peace, justice and education. She sought little for herself and placed her greatest hope in the black youth of her era, many of whom carried on her work in the same quiet and dignified way.
Too many today have refused to grasp her methods. Too many today are loud and selfish, looking only for their own reward, ready to act violently at the slightest provocation. Although they may know her name, too many today have no idea who Rosa Parks really was, or that their choices bring shame to her name and the movement to which she gave birth.
We will never see her like again.
Syl Jones, Minnetonka, is a journalist, playwright and corporate communications consultant.
Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved
Rosa Parks circa 1956: [url]http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/rparksmug1.html[/url]
2005-11-01 01:48 | User Profile
As a black American, I naturally have a tremendous amount of respect for Rosa Parks. But I have to say, the media and the political establishment have gone overboard with its glorification of this woman. As far as I can tell, all she did was refuse to give up her seat to someone else. [B]Big Deal![/B] Why elevate her to sainthood? You guys are right: Rosa Parks was no Mother Theresa.
The Civil Rights Movement was started as an attempt to have people treated with general fairness regardless of race. However, over the last 50 years, the Movement has become part of an ever more powerful, more ââ¬Åinclusive,ââ¬Â totalistic attempt to re-shape American society and the minds of American citizens. This new secular religion needs saints. Thus, we have St. Martin and now St. Rosa.
Like I said, I have nothing but admiration for Rosa Parks the 1955 Civil Rights Activist. But I have only contempt for the church that now canonizes her.
2005-11-01 01:54 | User Profile
[url]http://judicial-inc.biz/rosa_parks.htm[/url]
2005-11-01 17:28 | User Profile
[quote=kminta] The Civil Rights Movement was started as an attempt to have people treated with general fairness regardless of race. However, over the last 50 years, the Movement has become part of an ever more powerful, more ââ¬Åinclusive,ââ¬Â totalistic attempt to re-shape American society and the minds of American citizens. This new secular religion needs saints. Thus, we have St. Martin and now St. Rosa.
Like I said, I have nothing but admiration for Rosa Parks the 1955 Civil Rights Activist. But I have only contempt for the church that now canonizes her. Kminta, I respect your opinion, and I can understand why you feel the way you do. In my opinion, however, mandatory integration is just as bad as mandatory segregation.
2005-11-02 02:30 | User Profile
Even Bill Clinton had to crawl out from under his desk and tell a lie about Rosa Parks.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Little Geneva posted the following link to this story.
[url]http://littlegeneva.com/?p=369[/url]
[url]http://relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com/2005/10/clinton-lies-again-press-misses-it.html[/url]
Monday, October 31
Clinton Lies Again, Press Misses It Again
Via NewsBusters.org:
"In making his statement, he told another lie, like his claim about black churches being burned in his community when he was growing up.
"It was many months later that some enterprising reporter bothered to check the facts and found out that there were no black churches burned then in Arkansas. That fact was reported, but it never caught up with the original lie that Clinton told. (...)
"The latest Clinton lie, however, required no research to expose it. Here is what he said, from the AP story about Rosa Parks:
"Clinton said he was 9 years old when Parks refused to give up her seat. and he and his friends 'couldn't figure out anything we could do since we couldn't even vote. So we began to sit in the back of the bus when we got on.'"
"Hellooo. Hope, Arkansas, was a town of less than 9,000 when Bill Clinton was growing up there. Towns that small do not have public bus systems. So, he had to be talking about school buses. At that time, the school system in Hope was racially segregated. There would not have been any black students on the bus, relegated to the back of the bus..."
2005-11-02 05:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]Kminta, I respect your opinion, and I can understand why you feel the way you do. In my opinion, however, mandatory integration is just as bad as mandatory segregation.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you, Quantrill. One of the original goals of the Civil Rights struggle was to end state-sanctioned segregration, not integration. But along the way, black elites, aided by white liberals, hijacked the Movement so to advance their own agenda. Thanks to their machinations, the very fabric of American society is now completely warped by mandatory integration.
Segregation was unconstitutional not because it might have caused "psychological" feelings of inferiority in blacks. It was unconstitutional because the government involved itself in making demands upon its citizens that were never granted by the writers of the Constitution. Legal segregation is not the same as individuals freely making choices. As far as I'm concerned, [I]Brown vs. Board of Ed.[/I] was a mistake.
I often wonder what might have been had heavy-handed forced integration not occurred and, instead, voluntary integration had taken place. But then I tell myself, "What's the point?"
2005-11-02 06:52 | User Profile
[quote=kminta]As a black American, I naturally have a tremendous amount of respect for Rosa Parks. But I have to say, the media and the political establishment have gone overboard with its glorification of this woman. As far as I can tell, all she did was refuse to give up her seat to someone else. [B]Big Deal![/B] Why elevate her to sainthood? You guys are right: Rosa Parks was no Mother Theresa.
The Civil Rights Movement was started as an attempt to have people treated with general fairness regardless of race. However, over the last 50 years, the Movement has become part of an ever more powerful, more ââ¬Åinclusive,ââ¬Â totalistic attempt to re-shape American society and the minds of American citizens. This new secular religion needs saints. Thus, we have St. Martin and now St. Rosa.
Like I said, I have nothing but admiration for Rosa Parks the 1955 Civil Rights Activist. But I have only contempt for the church that now canonizes her. What are you doing in that forum, kminta?
2005-11-02 14:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=axel01]What are you doing in that forum, kminta?[/QUOTE]
What fourm?
2005-11-02 15:36 | User Profile
Kminta,
Axel,
He's over here making intelligent posts, unlike far too many people I've seen in the past.